In order to decide what we will see, read or buy, we tend to categorize all the communicative events, to classify a given verbal production in a given genre. All the disciplines, e.g. literary studies, history of arts, film studies, linguistics, and information sciences, resort to the concept of genre or type. Translation Studies (TS) has not escaped from the need to define genres and text-types. The distinction between the two concepts is not new and remains problematic, even if, in a simplistic way, we could say genres are socially oriented and text-types are linguistically marked.

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